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The 8th Wonder of the World, Xian, China travel blog

The 8th Wonder of the World

A travel blog entry by rofo

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... speed whilst I devoted time to my PSP. Xi-An old town still has ancient city walls surrounding the centre (most other cities in China have fake old walls built) which is dominated by a Bell Tower and a Drum Tower. A stroll took us past numerous street ...

Bill and Ben, Xian, China travel blog

Bill and Ben

A travel blog entry by squeak_1912

After Chengdu we went 2 Xi'an, home of the Terracotta Warriors (or Bill and Ben as we nicknamed them). The warriors have been following us around the world, they were on display in Bogota and somewhere else 2 but this was the 1st time we saw them. They ...

Lhasa to Xian, Xian, China travel blog

Lhasa to Xian

A travel blog entry by batleybound

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... of the day was that it was just too packed. I had chosen May Day to go visit, which is one of the biggest holidays in China.   A guy (Michael from Russia) who was on my tour group got me interested in a trip up a mountain close to Xi'an called Hua ...

The Terracotta Army, Xian, China travel blog

The Terracotta Army

A travel blog entry by camillal

... i bussen. Det koster kun 1 Yuan! Det tog ogsaa utroligt lang tid, der var trafikpropper hele vejen. De har virkelig et trafikproblem i Xian, de burde virkelig faa sig en metro... Endelig naar vi frem og en ny jagt saetter ind. Den nye bus er saa heller ...

Nee-Hao from china!, Xian, China travel blog

Nee-Hao from china!

A travel blog entry by matandrach

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Greetings everyone from china, Phew! We finally made it to our first country and what an amazing country it is! We arrived in Beijing on last Saturday morning and jet lag managed to wipe us out for most of the afternoon once we'd checked in! However ...

Deja-Vu in Xian, Xian, China travel blog

Deja-Vu in Xian

A travel blog entry by jeroenlievens

... Steven. Beijing, Hong Kong en de terracotta warrios uit Xian zijn zowat de drie zaken die niet te missen zijn bij een China bezoek. De eerste twee werden handig opgelost : - In Beijing waren de anderen er tesamen met Steven - In Hong kong vertrek ...

No more camping :-), Xian, China travel blog

No more camping :-)

A travel blog entry by pierrelang

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Dear all Well, I arrived in Xian yesterday , which means the rough camping part is over.... Will be staying here until Sunday and then I am  heading  off to Beijing for three days. I am very well! As soon as I am in Shanghai ( from 13 ...

A Most Awesome Weekend With The Gadget Family, Xian, China travel blog

A Most Awesome Weekend With The Gadget Family

A travel blog entry by eddakath

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... !) in nine years and I got to meet the rest of his family and the friends that had come across with them for their 2009 China adventure.  To meet the Fishers and the Fisher Family Friends click here and you will be taken to Amy's blog of the day they ...

Pingyao to Xian, Xian, China travel blog

Pingyao to Xian

A travel blog entry by teresam

... & bought tickets for the 13.10 overnight train to Chengdu (gluttons for punishment). We spent the hours in between wandering around Xian. It's a nice enough city, very clean & modern, but nothing that really held our interest. It's possible to see the ...

Ancient Whispers From The Silk Road, Xian, China travel blog

Ancient Whispers From The Silk Road

A travel blog entry by eddakath

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... cultural and technological transmission by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, missionaries, soldiers, nomads and urban dwellers between China, India, Persia and Mediterranean countries for over two thousand years.    Extending over 5,000 miles, ...

Xian, Xian, China travel blog

Xian

A travel blog entry by camillal

... magen til den paa vores hostel i Shanghai, praecis samme menukort. Men det er godt mad, saa det goer ikke saa meget... Xian saa umiddelbart lidt Beijing-kedelig ud. Der er i hvert fald ligesaa meget smog og byggerod. Desuden er byen pakket ind i ...

Xian - the ancient capital, Xian, China travel blog

Xian - the ancient capital

A travel blog entry by davejin

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... the last 1000 years, go to Beijing. And if you want to see China from over 1000 years ago, go to Xian. Xian was the capital of China for over 1000 years, spanning 6 dynasties. There are many architectural sites w/in a few hundred kilometers of the ...

Arriving in Xian, Xian, China travel blog

Arriving in Xian

A travel blog entry by dan-helen

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... Went to the hostel we'd booked to find it had only been open two months and was the nicest place we'd stayed so far in China. Went for a walk round Xian and visited the Bell Tower ( a tower with a big bell) and then visited the Drum Tower ( a tower with a ...

Checking out the Terracota Warriors, Xian, China travel blog

Checking out the Terracota Warriors

A travel blog entry by pierrez

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... greg repeated to me on numerous occasions) are: - Visiting the site of the famous terracota warriors, currently the #1 tourist attraction in China, which was discoverd in the 70's while a man was digging a well. The pictures you see are from just one of ...

The Adventure Ends with Stelaes & More Snacks, Xian, China travel blog

The Adventure Ends with Stelaes & More Snacks

A travel blog entry by eddakath

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... ' as when I read it it totally described the mosque I visited yesterday except that the Great Mosque is China's largest and the mosque I visited yesterday is Xian's oldest.    Then again, as far as I know I was probably in the Great Mosque. ...

Xián, Xián, China travel blog

Xián

A travel blog entry by mikesblog

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... was the 60th anniversary of the RoC so an even more important event. Most people have the week off so China goes on a mass migration and I was expecting Xian to be busy as it is one of China’s oldest cities steeped in history with a total ...

Terracotta Warriors, Xian, China travel blog

Terracotta Warriors

A travel blog entry by dan-helen

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Took a guided tour to see the Terracotta Warriors. However in China tour guides are paid to take you via various shops and factories, so we had to endure a silk factory where they tried to sell us quilts (as a group we acted very disinterested and walked ...

Xian, Xian, China travel blog

Xian

A travel blog entry by brockandlisa

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Trapped in Casablanca!, Xian, China travel blog

Trapped in Casablanca!

A travel blog entry by pchun88

... once again. As I prepare for my train ride to Nanjing, I'd like to spend some time talking about my experience in Xian, the first capitol of China. We took a two-hour plane ride southwest of Beijing and were met by our new tour guide, Peggy. When I ...

Xian - Home of the Terrotta Warrior, Xian, China travel blog

Xian - Home of the Terrotta Warrior

A travel blog entry by bcurtin

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... , October 10th First Day in Xian. Well arrive in at 09.00 in morning and off to Hotel. Realise that huge China Wine festival on this week in Xian so whole town (well city of 5 million people) packed including our hotel. Well say wine but think Chinese ...

MUM!!!!!, Xian Fan, China travel blog

MUM!!!!!

A travel blog entry by silberregen

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Ni Hao Mutschibu, welcome to China!!!! I succeeded, I shocked my mum ;o). Told you China is different, especially if you discover it by yourself. She kept watching and watching and couldn't believe her eyes. I wish I would have been able to talk to her ...

Last night in Nanjing and the journey from hell, Xian, China travel blog

Last night in Nanjing and the journey from hell

A travel blog entry by j.bennison

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... onto the floor between her legs and just looked at me and smiled like she was saying hello! When we have been walking around china, especially the more remote parts people openly stare, tell their friends about you and talk about you. They don't make it ...

Warriors and Walls, Xian, China travel blog

Warriors and Walls

A travel blog entry by monita

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Too Many Beers With Guangxi Brad & Englands MikeTV, Xian, China travel blog

Too Many Beers With Guangxi Brad & Englands MikeTV

A travel blog entry by eddakath

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... few years but being the Captain of the Baise Drug Squad poor Brad rarely has any time off.  His squad covers much of the China/Vietnam border along with the south of Yunnan and the Yunnan/Laos border.  Such a huge area for such a small squad but ...

Just made the next connection, Xian, China travel blog

Just made the next connection

A travel blog entry by sarahbooth

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Xian, Xian, China travel blog

Xian

A travel blog entry by mikeyv

... warriors now, so went back to the bus. The journey back seemed to take a lot longer than the journey there. Back in Xian, I stopped off at a supermarket to try and get a travel plug since my last one broke. After spending time trying to explain what I ...

Terracotta army, Xian, China travel blog

Terracotta army

A travel blog entry by sneekybeeky

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... a taxi finally stopped for us and we crammed our backpacks into the boot of his VW Jetta (of which there are loads of in china) and set of to Beijing west train station feeling rather clammy and moist around the edges.. It didnt take too long to get to ...

The Luxury Express, Xian, China travel blog

The Luxury Express

A travel blog entry by mikeyv

I was going to try and get a replacement charger for my MP3 player today, so wandered down the main shopping street, Dong Jie, but didn't find anywhere that sold one. I went to the supermarket to pick up some snacks for my train journey later, and also ...

What a sad day.. mum is leaving., Xian Fan, China travel blog

What a sad day.. mum is leaving.

A travel blog entry by silberregen

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And there she goes again. Her flight had been canceled so she had to take this flight. China Air and new years obviously doesn't go together. I wish she could have stayed longer, we hardly spoke about everything we wanted to speak about. I miss her, she's ...

An exhausting week in China, Shanghai, Xian, Beijing, China travel blog

An exhausting week in China

A travel blog entry by benandcat

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... him passionately in tiananmen square (Ben says it wasn't that passionate). Today was an all day trip to the great wall of china- it was awesome- steep but the pictures say it all. Who knew you could toboggan down from the wall to the car park ...

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